The Australian Constructors Association has supported evidence given by ABC Commissioner Nigel Hadgkiss over a hotly-contested claim by Labor Senator Doug Cameron during a Senate Estimates hearing this week.
The RTBU says public bus drivers across Sydney who today wore mufti and refused to collect fares to protest privatisation plans were unaware of a NSW IRC order overnight demanding that it direct members not to engage in any form of industrial action.
A growing number of professions are running unlawful internship programs that prey on vulnerable young workers, according to a leading employment lawyer.
A security company must provide United Voice with internal correspondence about its practice of engaging contractors and employees, as the union pursues it for allegedly employing two embassy guards on sham contracts and sacking them when they refused to waive legal rights.
The industrial advocate pursuing Employment Minister Michaelia Cash over adverse findings against her in the Heerey report into former FWC Vice President Michael Lawler's conduct today failed to secure a judicial review before a full Federal Court.
An FWC member asked to resolve a question of safe work practices at a Port Kembla steelworks has described the "heavy burden" associated with making a determination, calling on the opposing parties to put aside their "past fractious approach…to properly discharge (their) workplace safety obligations".
The Turnbull Government will seek to win Senate support for two of its workplace Bills before the Federal Parliament rises for the winter break on June 22.
The ABCC has revealed that another three builders face temporary bans on being allowed to bid for Commonwealth-funded construction projects as the Turnbull Government takes a tougher stance on breaches of the new national construction code.
The FWC has rejected a credit union supervisor's unfair dismissal claim because she exposed her employer to significant financial risk in transferring more than $340,000 from a deceased customer's account without a probate certificate.
The Fair Work Ombudsman has 26 active investigations into alleged underpayment by franchisees of the Domino's Pizza group, according to evidence presented to Senate estimates hearings today.
